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... Please watch the anime!

I watched the anime long before I read this manga. I decided to read the manga because I heard that there were some differences, and there certainly were.

Though the manga came first, the anime expands upon ideas and situations and gives more insight as to what is going on. While reading the manga, I felt myself a little lost at times - and the only reason I knew what was going on at all was because I had already seen the anime.

The manga feels rushed. Scenes that should be very important are glossed over, and significant events are ... completed in a few pages when they deserve a little more than that. The manga did not leave me attached to any of the characters because they weren't as rounded as they were in the anime.

The artwork was beautiful, although at times the line work was difficult to make out; during close-ups, etc.

The story was good but it could have been phenomenal had it been pushed to its limits rather than rushed and tossed aside.

I certainly don't hate this manga, but I feel that the anime leaves you with a better feeling at the end.

I picked up Vampire Knight believing that it might be an interesting vampire story and I like seeing the different takes on an otherwise old subject.

I will start off with the negative simply because I feel as though this must be said, or expressed:

What it boils down to is that Vampire Knight is a highly, highly confusing manga. In the beginning, as many people have experienced, Vampire Knight was rather simple in terms of plot and scenarios. As time went on, however, questions were being answered but - in the process - more questions were being asked. However, as time went on the facts and ... situations started to become more confusing, more jumbled and less organized.

The further into the manga I went the less I started to understand - it got to the point where I actually needed to look up the volume summaries after I read them, simply to understand what it was that I had just read.

It is very hard to understand who is speaking and to whom, and where they are, and what is going on. I found that the lines between arcs were blurred to the point where I thought that the first arc was 9 volumes long when in reality apparently several arcs had occurred in that time.

I think that this confusion stems from the fact that the art, while beautiful (graceful, lovely, etc.), is drawn in such a way that oftentimes completely obscures the characters' actions, especially in intense fight scenes where you can't tell who hit whom or who did the hitting, or anything of the ilk. It skips to scenes without explaining where you are and, admittedly, a few of the characters look similar and so it's hard to tell the difference between them. Even on volume 13 I have a hard time telling several of the characters apart.

Finally, I find that the output of information is slow, as I touched upon earlier. More questions are asked than answered, and it takes a very long time for most questions to be answered, if they are answered at all. I believe the manga could be improved tenfold only if we aren't made to wait so long just to receive information that could invest us a little more. Suspense is nice but if you have to wait too long to figure something out, oftentimes the wait can sever your interest rather than enhance it.

Having said all of that, I do believe I've made the manga sound AWFUL and I didn't mean to do that. I don't think it's an awful manga at all - I think it's good; iit's a good manga if you want to read something to turn your mind off. Yes, it's confusing and it will make you think but it isn't terrible.

The characters are all different, even though I wouldn't say that any of them are particularly wonderful (I see a lot of Sue-ish things going on, especially in the character of Yuuki). However, the art is wonderful, the story was good (not great), and I would suggest it for people who are wanting a quick read.

I absolutely loved Blood+, it is my favorite anime to date. With that in mind I decided to watch this one, but I tried my best not to compare them too heavily to one another since I did want to give this one a chance.

I will not say that Blood-C is a BAD anime. In reality I did enjoy it, but there are several criticisms that left me reeling during and after having watched it.

Firstly, a lot of the violence was rather senseless, to me. It had a very "KILL ALL THE THINGS!" mentality, which is apparent in the first few episodes alone. The fight ... scenes were enjoyable less for their unpredictability (because they were rather predictable) than for their sheer intensity.

That said, the fights WERE very intense - much more so than they were in Blood+. Dare I say, there is a lot more gore (although much of it is censored out, perhaps thankfully) than in its cousin, Blood+. The main character is a lot more likely to kick ass than Saya Otonashi was.

The revealing of information is a little slow and it isn't very organized. It IS a relatively short series, at 12 episodes, but they could have revealed information at a different pace than they did.

In all, as I said, I did enjoy the anime and I will say that it is good. I feel as though, however, it could be refined and it does not match up to the artwork that was Blood+; at least to me.